Diona Doherty from Londonderry is also at the festival for the first time with comedy sketch group FNT (Friday Night Therapy).
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Outside of a comedy sketch with fellow environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio during the Oscars telecast, Gore has done nothing to suggest he'll enter the White House race.
And Gordon Brown appeared in a comedy sketch with James Corden and boyband JLS in 2011 - after he was voted out of office in the 2010 general election.
" But she's also done a few one-offs in niche comedy shows like David Wains' web series "Wainy Days, " comedian Demetri Martin's sketch comedy show, "Important Things With Demetri Martin, " and a guest spot on "How I Met Your Mother.
Indeed, it has far more in common with conceptual art or alternate-reality science fiction than with sketch comedy.
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And that tonal shift is even more pronounced in Little Britain USA, an upcoming sketch comedy series adapted from Britain.
Newer, edgier shows such as the surreal League of Gentlemen and sketch comedy Goodness Gracious Me are also proving popular, she says.
Along with her husband, Jay Sukow, a 42-year-old improv actor, she founded the Riot Act, a company that integrated sketch comedy into corporate-training programs.
Facebook founder and billionaire bachelor Mark Zuckerberg made a similar move earlier this year when he appeared on sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
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In no small part because of the influence of Second City, an evening of humour in Chicago is much more likely to come from improv and sketch comedy than stand-up.
But the late-night sketch comedy show has a history of skewering politicians, sometimes with such precision that the show's catch phrases have become more closely associated with politicians than the politicians' own words.
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Or the New York Jets, a franchise that feels less and less like a football team and more like an avant-garde sketch-comedy outfit.
Just as an example, note musical sketch from 2009 where comedy group Axis of Awesome amaze their audience by playing 36 modern pop songs over the same four-chord structure, in one long sequence.
Apart from The Vicar of Dibley, French is best known for her comedy collaboration with Jennifer Saunders, the French and Saunders sketch show, which began in 1987.
The stars of the IFC comedy "Portlandia" satirized the social booby-traps in a sketch featuring two couples who ruin everything from "Dexter" to "Star Wars" for each other by blabbing crucial plot points.
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